";s:4:"text";s:5766:" It’s up to me to make the most of that opportunity.’’ A production line comprising the Mortimers, Hughes clan and the old patriarchal Bullfrog Peter Moore had the title under lock and key for decades.The Sharks junior ranks boast some serious rugby league pedigree, with Jack Rogers, son of 90s star Mat and grandson of club legend Steve the latest in a long string of famous names to call the club home.These kids have a long way to go yet, but should they make the top grade it’ll make for one hell of a second coming for a number of famous names at the club.20 years after his old man Mat was named the 1995 Dally M Rookie of the Year, Jack Rogers joined the club’s under 20s ranks this week after fending off interest from Super rugby outfits the NSW Waratahs and Queensland Reds.No family has greater ties to The Shire outfit than the Rogers’, with the Sharks naming Mat on the wing outside father Steve in the club’s Dream Team announced in 2006.The eldest Rogers ranks alongside Andrew Ettingshausen as the greatest to ever call Shark Park home, and between them the Rogers’ have racked up 2,365 points for the club to occupy positions one and two on their all-time pointscoring list, as well as a slew of Kangaroos, Queensland and NSW jumpers.The 16-year-old son of Sharks head coach Shane Flanagan is starting to make his mark in the club’s lower grades, making his SG Ball debut earlier this year and kicking a clutch field-goal to sink Parramatta in a semi-final a few months back.He also started at five-eighth during the Sharks recent triumph over the Townsville Stingers in the Under 18s national championship.Flanagan senior’s own playing career started with archrivals St. George in 1987 before stints with the Magpies and Eels, but he’s been all about the The Shire since following Ricky Stuart to the club as his assistant from the Roosters.The 49-year-old’s five years in the Cronulla hot seat have been dominated by the ASADA peptides scandal that landed him a 12-month ban from the game, with the 18 months of drama brought on by the investigation slamming shut one of the club’s brightest premiership windows in some time.Fifteen-year-old Trace Davidson lines up for the Sharks Harold Matts team in the same position — second-row — that his father Les earned himself a reputation as one of the hardest men the game has seen.Les arrived at Cronulla in 1990 after a stellar seven years at Souths when he picked up four caps for the Kangaroos and five for NSW between 1986 and 1988.Renowned as one of the hardest hitters in the competition, Davidson struggled after a lengthy suspension for belting the Roosters’ Rod Silva in 1992, but eventually recaptured his best form to become a club favourite over the course of an eight-year stint at the Sharks.He might carry the name of one of the Dragons’ all-time greats but young Monty Raper — who came off the bench for Cronulla’s under 16s in their win over Townsville recently — also boasts significant ties to the Sharks as the grandson of club legend Monty Porter.Porter may have made his name as an uncompromising forward during the Dragons dominance of the 50s and 60s, but it is his connection to Cronulla that is most celebrated after he signed on as their foundation captain during their inaugural year in 1967.Since 2008 the Sharks have awarded the Monty Porter Medal to its best and fairest in acknowledgment of his standing in the game as both a player and administrator.Another whose lineage is one of red and white royalty but 18-year-old Jack Williams has taken one of the finest pedigrees in rugby league next door to the Sharks, where he partners Kyle Flanagan in the SG Ball side’s halves.The Gasniers of course rank as one of the game’s most talented family names, with Reg named among the game’s first batch of Immortals in 1981 after 39 Tests for Australia and a starring role in the Dragons famed 11-year premiership reign, while Mark ranked as one of the best centres of his era during a 174-game career with the Dragons that was capped with the 2010 Dragons premiership.A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites.
The Jack Rogers Jacks Flat Sandal is handmade and each one has the size handwritten in the upper or on the sole next to the vamp.
The 20-year-old rugby star has been scoring plenty of tries playing for Bond University’s Premier Colts side on the Gold Coast. We ran them together.“He worked hard.
The booming kick and the defenders strewn in his wake.On Tuesday, 19-year-old Jack Rogers walked through the very same doors his legendary grandfather, the late Steve Rogers walked through 30 years ago.And they are the very same doors Jack’s father, dual international and Sharks pointscoring wizard Mat Rogers skipped through as an 18-year-old, after signing a train-and-trial contract with the Sharks.Jack, the third-generation Rogers to join the Sharks, drove from the Gold Coast last weekend to start his NRL dream — and make his own name — with Cronulla’s under-20s squad after knocking back interest from the NSW Waratahs.Jack Rogers becomes the second grandson of rugby league royalty at the club with Jack Williams, 18, who calls Reg Gasnier ‘Pop’, also contracted to the Cronulla SG Ball side.Born in the Sutherland Shire, young Rogers played rugby league as a junior before moving to the Gold Coast to live with his father Mat as a 14-year-old.“I remember running around here as a youngster, in the restaurant upstairs.
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